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Idiaquez, Sr. de, late Spanish ambassador at Genoa, said to be going to Venice, 283.

Imperial Court, the, 95.

-, -, ambassador to. See Beale, Robert.

-, -, legate to. See Commendone, Cardinal.

-, Diet, many commissaries of Princes going to, 424.

Indians and other natives, ill-treatment of, by the Spaniards, 155.

Indies, the, 410.

-, Portuguese, ill-rule of viceroys in, 165.

-, fleet (Spanish), returning home, fight of, with an English fleet, 329.

Infidels, the. See Turks.

Inistioge (Inis Dioge), a walled town in Leinster, 157.

Innsbruck (Ispruck), letter from, 505.

Ireland, description &c. of, by Daves Wolff, 151 et seq.

-, ancient King of. See Macmurchada, Diarid.

-, present “possessors of.” See Butler, Earl of Ormond; Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare.

-, Viceroy or Lord Deputy of. See Sydney, Sir Henry: Fitzwilliam, Sir William.

-, -, with his court and council, is seated at Dublin, 154.

-, Bishops of, exhorted to aid the enterprise there, 390.

-, Cardinal Protector of. See Alciati.

-, Grand Marshal of. See Parker, Henry, Baron Morley.

-, Prior of. See Lesent, Maturin.

-, Catholics of. See Irish Catholics.

-, chieftains or lords of, offer to wrest that realm from England, if they are helped with forces, 78; said to desire Don John of Austria for their King, 165.

-, commission to enter and be lord of, granted by Pope Adrian IV. to Henry II., 151, 164, 241.

-, invasion of, proposed expedition for, or “the Irish enterprise,” allusions to and preparations for, passim. And see under Fitzgerald, James Fitzmaurice; Stuckley, Thomas; Gregory XIII., Pope.

-, -, an Italian commander-in-chief advocated for, 247.

-, -, troops for, are in Portugal, 436; insubordinate conduct of, 437, 438; to be exhorted to persevere in their enterprise, 481.

-, -, -, a nuncio and other ecclesiastics should accompany, 497.

-, -, -, money for, asked for, 534.

-, -, -, are about to set sail, 542.

-, -, -, suggestions concerning, 559.

-, -, belief that the force is not large enough for success, and that the soldiers will go much more willingly to Africa, 566.

-, Legate or Nuncio demanded for, 546.

-, Parliament of (1569), speech made in, alluded to, 154, 155.

-, paymaster in, 390.

-, people of, passim; all whose names begin with D or Mac, said to be of Spanish descent, 152.

-, ports in, suitable for landing at, 167.

-, Princes of, to be defended against the Queen, 546.

-, Realm of, cities and nobles of, &c., description of, 151 et seq.

-, settlers in, temp. Henry II., 153.

-, ships from, 508, 567.

-, towns, castles and houses in, obeying Queen Elizabeth, burned, 162.

-, travellers to, 236, 395.

-, offer to reduce, to Philip's obedience, 19.

-, is within the Pope's jurisdiction, 23.

-, insurrection in, 40, 116, 211, 330; alluded to, 485.

-, troops sent to, 124.

-, part of the patrimony of St. Peter, 151.

-, denuded of the means of defence, 154.

-, English rule in, doubts of the permanence of, 155.

-, the ruin of England to begin in, 165.

-, invasion of, suggestions for, 164 et seq.

-, the late war against the Queen's Viceroy, &c., in, alluded to, 166.

-, Elizabeth said not to be deprived of, by her excommunication, 188.

-, the greatest rebel in. See Fitzgerald, James Fitzmaurice.

-, raising of, to the rank of a kingdom, by Henry VIII., allusion to, 241.

-, is full of heretics and robbers, 285.

-, briefs proposed on behalf of, 286.

-, projected rising in and conquest of, 289, 298, 327. And see under Fitzgerald, James Fitzmaurice; Stucley, Thomas.

-, danger of the proposed enterprise for, and peril to the Catholics there, 337.

-, persons embarking for, 389.

-, troops to be hired in, 390.

-, proposal to send Jesuits to, 452, 559.

-, arrival of Fitzgerald in, expected, 508.

Irish bishop, at Lisbon, 438; bishops, faculties granted to, 544.

-, Catholics, oppression of, 23; cause of, recommended to the Spanish King, 106; and to the Pope, 125; are anxiously awaiting the arrival of a fleet, 157; fear that they may be slain, 396.

-, -, aid for, needed or solicited, 110, 172, 174, 187.

-, friar, 106. And see Molan, Denis.

-, gentlemen, briefs sent to, by the Pope. See O'Neill and O'Donnell.

Irishman, going to study at Rome, 540.

Irishmen, proposal to send, to serve the Spanish King elsewhere, 167; barbarous habits of, ibid.

-, in Portugal, 187, 294, 409.

-, sent from Rome, 432.

-, at foreign universities. See Louvain and Douai.

-, exiles at Douai, recommended by the Pope, 296.

Irish priest. See White, John.

-, priests in Lisbon refuse to receive alms, save from the Pope, or some great Prince, 449; at Madrid, 498; return to Lisbon, 499, 500.

Irving, James, Scottish Knight of [the Order of Jerusalem in] Malta, recommended to the Legate in France, 42.

-, -, at Avignon, 63; mission of, to Scotland, 143, 145, 146; imprisonment of, 145.

-, -, going on the Irish enterprise, 389; Stucley's pre-eminence over, 434.

-, -, letter from, 145.

-, -, brothers and sisters of, 42.

Isenberg, Count of. See Cologne, Archbishop of.

Issoire (Yssoire) [Auvergne], reduction of, 327.

Italian commander, advocated for Ireland, 247.

-, deserters, from Fitzgerald's ship, list of, 383.

-, friar, craves the Abbey of Ratisbon, 273.

-, merchants, privileges of, in France, 15.

-, -, letters of, alluded to, 486.

-, troops, going to Ireland, 390.

-, -, for the African enterprise, 325; with the King of Portugal, 491.

-, -, at the battle of Alcazar, bravery of, 496, 509, 510; killed, 510, 513.

-, -, escaped from Barbary, 509, 535; prisoners there, woeful plight of, 560.

Italy, suggested ousting of the French from, 60, 62.

-, slayers of heretics in, said to be rewarded by the Pope, 77.

-, suggested visit of the King of Spain to, 118.

-, Don John in, 148, 149, 170; proposal to send him back to, 434.

-, Escovedo may be sent to, 278, 280, 287.

-, troops from, 282.

-, making of war in, suggested, 506.

-, enterprises of, may be abandoned, 507.

-, English captains going to, 517.

-, Council of, business to pass through the hands of, 440.

-, Inquisition in, Englishman imprisoned by, 307.

-, letters from, alluded to, 519.

-, letters sent to, 514.

-, moneys in, for the English enterprise, 235; brought into, 527.

-, moneys sent to, by the King of Spain, 275.

-, persons in the pay of the English Queen in, names of, desired by the Pope, 537.

-, Princes of, said to have “stifled” the rewarding of those who have slain heretics, 77; may aid the Irish enterprise, 402.

-, soldiers going back to, 509.

-, Spanish troops returning from, 44.

-, travellers to, 180, 483, 514, 520.

Iveagh (Orvoyrk), Lord, an Ulster chief, 152.